What happened this month? Eight Forty-Eight's month-in-review

It's the last day of February, so obviously it's time for our segment Month in Review, where we talk to people who know about what were the biggest stories for this past month. We'll be talking with some of the biggest names in Chicago news, but here's a preview of what they're interested in remembering:

An overreported story for Corley was "the brouhaha over the city sticker with the 15 year old kid and the gang sign allegations", while underreported has been the Illinois Eavesdropping Law being challenged.

Ken Davis, Host of Chicago Newsroom on CAN-TV:

Davis has been following Super-PACs and campaign financing closely, which he says "have transformed the national election process." He pays kudos to Stephen Colbert, who has done the best job at "helping the public understand this ruling...with the creation of his own Super-PAC." The recent Sun-Times story on how CPD has been dealing with gangs is another he's interested in, as is the speed camera law that's not "fully understood by most people who drive in Chicago." "Aldermen who voted for these cameras may find themselves regretting this vote the way they regretted voting for the parking meter deal," Davis predicts. And finally, he's interested in the conflicts over "educational apartheid" between Reverend Jesse Jackson and schools CEO J.C. Brizard.

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For underreported, Davis thinks we should be paying more attention to Google's new privacy settings (in effect today), Chicago's shrinking population, and student debt. But he and Corley agree on one thing: the City Sticker story was definitely the most overreported, and in Davis' words, "much ado about nothing. It was classic media hall-of-mirrors stuff."